Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing · New York

Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc.

Elmira, NY · ~159 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc. runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc.: 3.0 TCR = 90% of Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc. safety composite

Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc.: 3.9 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.57× in 2024

Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 3.9 in 2019 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Elmira, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #19/58
  • PHOTO Metal Finishing Syst…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metal Finishing Systems Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc. averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc. TCR series: 2019=3.9 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=0.1 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc. falls in its industry

1,158 Sheet metal work (except stamp establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 58 Sheet metal work (except stamp employers in New York.

Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc. (159 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc.
Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc. (159 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Southerntier Custom Fabricators, Inc. has more employees than the Sheet metal work (except stampings) manu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 4.7 4.7 7 0 0
2023 5.5 2.1 8 0 0
2022 0.1 0.1 2 0 0
2021 1.3 0.6 2 0 0
2020 2.3 0.0 3 0 0
2019 3.9 0.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · NY · Elmira

1,158 Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 88 employers in Elmira, NY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Metal Finishing Systems Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR George Koch Sons - Evansville 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tenere Metals Division Osceola 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automation Guarding Systems 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE NORTHPORT Powerstation-NY66 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE New York Office 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE 198 Grumman Rd 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rochester Davis-Fetch Corp. 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnot Ogden Medical Center 2,497 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc of Chemung-Schuyler 556 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR DePuy Synthes Horseheads 388 FTE
NAT-TCR Culberson Hospital 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Marble Falls Main Station 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shop 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgeport WWTP 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE DALB, Inc 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manheim 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tejas Tubular Products - Tubing 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reynolds Excavation 159 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.